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17th March 2023, 18:16
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Re: Spitfire
....it produced aces from more different nations than any other aircraft type. Check this out:
SPITFIRE TOP ACES BY NATION 1. Great Britain: James Johnson 36,92 2. Canada: George Beurling 31,33 3. South Africa: Adolph Malan 29,75 4. Ireland: Brendan Finucane 29 5. New Zealand: Colin Gray 27,2 6. Greece: Ioannis Plagis 16 7. Australia: Paterson Hughes 15,17 8. France: Jean-Francois Demozay 13 9. USA: John Lynch 13 10. Rhodesia (independent from 1965 onwards): William Maguire 12 11. Norway: Svein Heglund 11,33 12. Poland: Eugeniusz Horbaczewski 11 13. Denmark: Kaj Birksted 10,5 14. Czechoslovakia (1918-1992): Otto Smik 9 15. Belgium: Yvan Du Monceau 8 16. Netherlands: Hugh Godefroy 7 17. Soviet Union (1922-1991): Sergey Martynov 6 There is also a Spanish guy named Juan Lario who flew Spitfires for the Soviet Union. According to Tomas Polak, he scored 27+8sh kills in WW2 but I don't know how many of them were scored in the Spitfire. Who does ? 
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